OpenJDK6 End Of Life

[Andrew Brygin]

Our plan for running the OpenJDK 6 project would essentially be to continue the
excellent work done by Andrew Haley.  More specifically, we would ensure that we
respond promptly to any questions posted on the jdk6-dev mailing list (the amount
of traffic on this list is very low, so we don't see this as requiring a lot of resources).
Since Azul is a Java source code licensee of Oracle's and still supports customers
using JDK 6 our intention is to continue to backport fixes where applicable and integrate
them back into the OpenJDK 6 source tree in a timely manner.  We will also confirm that
any fixes integrated into OpenJDK 6 are in conformance with the relevant specifications
using the JCK.  We feel this will continue to provide benefit to the wider OpenJDK
user community.

Thanks,
Andrew

> On Dec 7, 2016, at 12:51 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/12/16 20:29, Andrew Brygin wrote:
> 
>> Azul Systems would still like to offer to take over leadership of this
>> project from the beginning of next year.  To comply with the Bylaws of
>> the OpenJDK 6 project, the Project Lead needs to have Committer status
>> on the project.  Simon Ritter does not have this status and so he is not
>> eligble (at this time) to lead the project. Since I am a committer on
>> the OpenJDK 6 project I would therefore like to offer to represent Azul
>> as Project Lead.
> 
>   When a Project is created, or when its Project Lead resigns or
>   departs, candidates for a new Project Lead may be nominated by the
>   Group Leads of a Project’s Sponsoring Groups. Such a nomination
>   must be approved by a Three-Vote Consensus of these Group Leads.
> 
> The sponsoring group is the Build Group, and the lead is Tim Bell.  I
> have no objection to your taking this role.  However, I think we need
> to have a conversation, preferably in public, about how you intend to
> run this project.  It's not good to do this in the dark.
> 
> Andrew.